Suzanne Collins Quotes

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“I reach out to touch his cheek and he catches my hand and presses it against his lips.”

“They don't know that I'm already asking for the moon.”

“Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it… And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.”

“No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.”

“Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.”

“Upon this crown my pledge I give,
To my last breath, I hold this choice,
I will your unjust deaths avenge,
All here who died without a voice.”

“I’ve stopped talking because there’s really nothing left to say and there’s this piercing sort of pain where my heart is. Maybe I’m even having a heart attack, but it doesn’t seem worth mentioning.”

“Eyes on the forest, not on the trees.”

“I flee what I can't fight. What can only do me harm.”

“I'm not allowed to bet, but if I could, my money would be on you.”

“And we must fight back! President Snow says he's sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that? Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”

“I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.”

“They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.”

“While you live, the revolution lives”

“The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.”

“Listen up. You're in trouble. Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem”

“Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.”

“What do you think?" I whisper to Peeta. "About the fire?"
"I'll rip off your cape if you'll rip off mine," he says through gritted teeth.”

“Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?”

“Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.”

“Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.”

“If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.”

“I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.”

“Only.. I want to do die as myself”

“Peeta" I said "Stay with me"

I heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was 'always”

“Crying is not an option.”

“Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.”

“All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.”

“turn and turn and turn again
you see the what, but not the when
remedy and wrong entwine
and so they form a single vine”

“Got it," I say. "Did you tell Peeta this?"

"Don't have to," says Haymitch. "He's already there.”

“Then I get it, what it means. At least, for me. District 12 only has three existing victors to choose from. Two male. One female…
I am going back into the arena.”

“Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.”

“I don't know what I expected from my first meeting with Peeta after the announcement. A few hugs and kisses. A little comfort maybe. Not this. I turn to Haymitch. "Don't worry, I'll get you more liquor.”

“I know. I was hoping," I say.
"Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch.
I don't argue because, of course, he's right.”

“Hey, Finnick, come on in! We figured out how to make you pretty again!”

“I don't like self-righteous people," I say.

"What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles.”

“I pull the sleeping bag up to his chin and kiss his forehead, not for the audience, but for me. Because I'm so grateful that he's here, not dead by the stream as I'd thought. So glad I don't have to face Cato alone.”

“You don't destroy what you want to
acquire in the future.”

“I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she's a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim.”

“I wonder how she'll make up her mind."
"Oh, that I do know." I can just catch Gale's last words through the layer of fur. "Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.”

“I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. “No, don’t let go of me,” he says.”

“For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand.
-Peeta”

“But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.”

“A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.”

“Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him.”

“Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.”

“Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.”

“What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy.”

“Peeta smiles at me, sad and mocking. "Okay. Thanks for the tip, sweetheart.”